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by jker 3y ago
"Starting at $2,199" Freedom isn't free, apparently.
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by jker 3y ago
A close read of the statement suggests that this is more of a feel-good thing and not much to worry about. If those tribes get actual sovereignty over those waters, they’ll soon find them full of Chinese fishing trawlers.
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by jker 3y ago
The statement notes that the waters are “also claimed” by the California state government, which “supports the concept” of tribal stewardship. This whole thing seems pretty insubstantial.
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by jker 3y ago
Take it down a notch, please.
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by jker 3y ago
This is an excellent description of the trajectory of Digg, the first platform I witnessed going through this lifecycle. In this case, the competitor that drained users from Digg was Reddit. Another feature of Digg’s decline was a disastrou
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by jker 3y ago
I too have been trying to think of a more civil version of this word lately. Entrashment? Crudification?
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by jker 3y ago
And to make matters worse, much of that loan from the federal government was paid to fraudulent claims - it was ripped off by scammers.
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by jker 3y ago
They were sharing private patient info with advertisers, despite promising not to. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622227/betterhelp-custom...
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by jker 3y ago
After the Better Help fiasco, I’d imagine people would be very hesitant to use something like this without some kind of third-party auditing and certification that their data aren’t being used to sell them stuff.
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by jker 3y ago
I don’t think so, the transmitter was under the power limit for amateur FM, and it didn’t overlap any local stations. That was my interpretation of the law as I read it before I built the station, doesn’t make it accurate or authoritative t
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by jker 3y ago
During pandemic I set up a little automated FM radio station for my block and the surrounding ones. It had a voice-synthesized DJ and a big randomized playlist of great music. The whole thing ran on an RPi with a little USB FM transmitter.
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by jker 4y ago
No, Harvey Weinstein went big, he had a private offshoot of Mossad at his disposal. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-a...
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by jker 4y ago
Lighten up, Minkowski.
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by jker 4y ago
And I thought I couldn’t hate sports betting any more than I already did. The ghost of Walter Annenberg is still haunting that slimy industry.
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by jker 4y ago
You’re talking about two very different eras and this two different sets of people.
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by jker 4y ago
A medium rare New York strip is, to me, delicious, and it doesn't need anything, not even salt. I don't eat such things anymore, but still: delicious.
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by jker 4y ago
Recruiters know that layoffs are often an opportunity to purge the lower-performing employees.
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by jker 4y ago
Indeed, the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis was a thoroughly bipartisan effort, one that began in the Clinton Administration. This is why Brooksley Born is a hero for our times, and Larry Summers, a villain. https:&#x2
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by jker 4y ago
I use the AWS Toolkit for PyCharm; it automates most of the process, including pulling an image (built by Amazon, I believe) that emulates the Lambda environment. All I have to do is write the Lambda function with the correct method signat
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by jker 4y ago
Quite the contrary, I’ve found Docker to be absolutely indispensable for local dev, particularly when I’m debugging various cloud-targeted components, e.g. AWS Lambdas and Step functions. A container can nicely simulate most of the running
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by jker 4y ago
I believe that this type of employee-hostile practice, among with many others, is partially driving the epidemic of homelessness in America. There are people who simply find life on the streets less unpleasant than grinding away under an ab
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by jker 4y ago
I’ve noticed that people who claim not to care what other people think are paradoxically desperate to make sure everyone knows they don’t care.
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by jker 4y ago
Agreed, FreeCAD is painful to use when you’ve been spoiled by Fusion or OnShape. I’ve tried using SALOME as an OSS alternative, it’s somewhat reminiscent of FreeCAD but something of an improvement. CadQuery is another possibility, but I wo
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by jker 4y ago
Berkeley, not Harvard. He was a Harvard graduate, but taught at Berkeley, and in fact was the youngest math professor in Cal history.
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by jker 4y ago
But when you click a link in the TikTok app, TikTok opens an in-app browser for you to view it in - and that’s where it’s gathering all the information. It’s a deceptive practice, since most users won’t realize that they’re not simply surfi
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by jker 4y ago
Your article says no such thing.
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by jker 4y ago
I’ve been using OnShape, which is pretty nice.
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by jker 4y ago
The problem is, plenty of other people agree with you, except they consider you to be in that 0.25%.
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by jker 4y ago
Super fun, and the 80s retro look is spot on. The sun reminds me of a logo from that era, but I can't remember the company or organization.
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by jker 4y ago
Please spend the next year doing a bunch of free engineering and design work for me, thanks in advance.

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